NATO survives Trump – Leader

Donald Trump is doing his best to ruin what has made the United States and Europe strong. Clear international rules, global cooperation and free trade are dangerous as long as Trump is President of the United States. In many ways, he managed to destroy it. The relationship between the United States and Europe has deteriorated by the destructive duties of Trump and his perverse results against European leaders. The image of a united western world has also been damaged as a result of the US solo game in key international cases. Is the President also raging in NATO, the guarantor of peace and freedom in Europe after the Second World War and one of the clearest symbols of the transatlantic link [19659004]? Even before Donald Trump landed in Europe, he had messed up the terrain and attacked both NATO as an organization and its European allies. Trump thinks that NATO Europeans are rolling in the United States and it seems to be hard to see how the Alliance's defenses are bringing something good to America. NATO is as bad as Nafta, the president recently hit. Given his well-known distaste for free trade, it can be considered a harsh judgment.

Well, in Brussels, he was not merciful in his criticism of the other participants, especially German Chancellor Angela Merkel. At one point, Trump reportedly threatened to leave NATO unless other countries accepted it.

Defense spending was the most dominant topic of the summit. Even when other items were on the agenda, Trump introduced the debate on how much of the GDP member states should put on defense. The NATO countries are aiming for defense spending in all countries to be 2% of GDP in 2024. But Trump suddenly calls for the target to be 4% (totally unrealistic figure, not even the United States till today). At his press conference on Thursday, Trump praised his excellence as a negotiator and proudly announced that all members were in agreement to increase defense spending at a faster pace. than previously promised. According to Frenchman Emmanuel Macron, however, the target is two percent in 2024.

But Donald Trump's confused figure and hard rhetoric obscure his view. The president must fight with his allies but, in essence, defense cooperation continues as usual and NATO is stronger than in the long run. The protection of NATO's eastern flank has been strengthened in recent years thanks to increased military presence in the Baltic states and Poland. At the summit, following a proposal by US Secretary of Defense James Mattis, it was decided to insert another 90 links. Troubled Trump has raged a lot in his path, but NATO is strong.